The response was positive until these organizations found out that family planning and women's right to choose were not part of the initiative. That was when their reaction changed.
I respect your decision not to state your position on these issues. But you are well aware that Status of Women Canada no longer provides funding for core research, advocacy or lobbying for women's groups that used to receive funding from you.
Given those excluded areas, how do you plan to gather the information you talked about earlier, to ensure that gender-based analysis and gender budgeting are carried out, while ensuring that we have not come this far for nothing and that progress continues to be made? Right now, we are taking steps backwards on all fronts, whether in terms of international or global organizations or the UN. So how do you expect to make progress if these organizations are not doing the core research, which can give us the tools to go farther.